CANTHI SINUS
CANTHI SINUS (
Κάνθι κόλπος:
Gulf of Cutch), a great gulf, on the W. coast of India intra Gangem, between Larice and the mouths of the Indus. (
Ptol. 7.1. § § 2, 55, 94.)
The country on its shores was called SYRASTRENE; and Ptolemy mentions the island of Barace (
Cutch) as lying in it.
The pseudo-Arrian calls it--the Irinus Sinus (
Εἰρινόν), and the interior portion, behind the island of Cutch (now known as the
Runn), he calls Baraces (
Βαράκης), and states that it contains seven islands (they are, in fact, more numerous); and he describes the dangers of its navigation (
Peripl. Mar. Erythr. p. 23, Hudson). The
Runn is now a mere morass.
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